I hope everyone has some internet and free time to redefine their own life through atomic changes in daily life. Also hoping you're in a good company that endures all of the changes and thrives along with you.
There's a popular AI-generated meme that has gone viral for a few weeks. The meme contains two chocolates, one wrapped in plastic and another without any wrapping. Wrapped chocolate is free from germs and ants, but the open chocolate is surrounded by ants and insects. It is created with a specific intention to pass a message about privacy, and the quote goes like this: "Privacy is power. What people don't know, they can't ruin."
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| The viral meme |
I'm still wondering why humans are still compared with ants and insects. I also see how humans tend to compare themselves with shallow things, such as chocolate. Or let me be convinced that humans have taken their animalistic instincts for granted and still function as primitive animals in the fully evolved conscious human body.
Behaviour creates culture. Culture is made up of opinions and beliefs that are collectively accepted by society. We often talk about rape-culture, brain-drain culture, hire-and-fire culture, vote-for-note culture, revdi culture, red-carpet culture, mall culture, VIP culture, suicide epidemics, divorce culture, feudalistic culture, corporate culture, coaching culture, climate culture, and so on. By focusing on such heavy entities, I thought, from which class of society is this meme and quote coming from?
And many other 'wh' questions hover over the mind while I'm looking at this meme. Who controls what defines privacy? From whom can such thoughts come? How does one define privacy, and what does s/he try to protect?
Another question can come from something abstract, that is, fear. Fear is the driving force of human life. Agreed. People run after safety and "feel" safe for a while. But let's face this: The more people run after safety, the more they justify their fear.
Ok, let me state some more questions that again connect this meme with culture.
To what extent do fear dynamics help to create cultures? I'm talking about multiple cultures here. Is it so that I am afraid of something today and share my anxiety or grievance with another fellow, and s/he agrees or approves all of my fears? What point of view should one carry to share something with someone? How far is it true that one should have some non-judgmental and practical ears to create a sharp listening habit? To what extent is the listener who's paying attention to someone's private affairs afraid of himself or herself? Who and what decides the environmental safety where someone "subjectively feels comfortable to share"?
"Privacy is power. What people don't know, they can't ruin."
Forget about the picture for a while. Let's pose some questions on the quote itself.
What is privacy?
What is Power?
Who are these people who can ruin things?
What is knowledge?
What is there to be known?
What is knowability?
What do we mean by ruining?
What is emotional drainage?
How should emotions be treated when privacy, which is the least valuable thing in the world, is considered as power?
Why is the one who shares something so confident about this flawed fact that knowledge of something can only ruin things?
What does knowledge have to do with the EGO?
Who decides what knowledge can do to a person?
Who decides what should be kept private and what should not?
Why is there a need to keep things private? Is it fear from society or the culture that is created with the collective justification of fear itself?
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Thank me later. Find the answers to those questions first. Stop looking at the market, or portfolio, or newspaper, or TV screens, or the bank account statement for a while. Stop that mindless scrolling at those social media apps with lustful consumerist eyes and mind. Stop drinking that soft drink, stop having pizza or ice cream for a while. Stop wasting petrol and diesel on purposeless drives. These questions can change your mental wiring. Be brave about that, you'll surely endure this. Have some silent yet rigorous chit chat with yourself, and see how far and where your so-called "self-love" takes you. Have the guts to go against yourself and break something bad within? Then this blog is for you.
May you find peace and light in every walk of life.
Thanks for staying tuned.
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